"It is useless. It was useless to look for her elsewhere than
in the sheik's house, and there we did not find her. The law forbids
our doing more, and the tschorbadji, when he placed the soldiers at
the disposal of our gracious master, and ordered them to accompany
us, expressly commanded that we should not enrage the men of
Praousta to desperation, or to any thing contrary to law."
"But remember, brother," said the other eunuch, "what our master
said. We must bring him back this runaway slave or we lose our
heads! And truly I would much rather keep my head on my shoulders
than have it rolled to the ground."
"And so would I mine," said the first. "Therefore we will do all we
can to get possession of this slave. A week is a long time, and I
hardly think we shall have to wait so long."
"There is one other matter we must not lose sight of," murmured the
first eunuch, as they ascended the stairway to Cavalla, followed by
the soldiers. "We are to watch the crazy young captain, the boulouk
bashi, and report all he does, to our master. It seems to me there
may be some connection between the young boulouk bashi and the
flight of the slave. Let us keep our eyes open, for our heads are at
stake."
And with gloomy looks they presented themselves to their master on
their return to the palace, to inform him that they had made
thorough search for Masa in the sheik's house, and had not found
her.
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